Here’s one for all you wordy blowhards out there who go totally nuts at Twitter’s 140 character limit. Yep, all you people that think that Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is just a bit of casual light reading for a Sunday afternoon.
If you absolutely love to write on and on without any kind of restraint whatsoever, you now can! TinyPaste will give you a free text box in which to write your huge masterpiece unhindered and without any character limits. You can then post it online wherever you want.
If you’re the kind of person who wears a tinfoil hat and thinks that someone will come to murder you while you sleep, the Quantum Sleeper is probably just the thing you need. This bed does not only offer state of the art protection against intruders and natural disasters, it also offers a broad range of options that can turn your sleeping den into something in which you can live in for weeks! Hit the more link for more details about the Sleeper’s features and accessories.
This has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen all week! Here’s a hilarious video from the British sketch comedy show ‘Big Train” which presents 3 techniques to help bosses get away from angry employees. Enjoy!
Now this guy is totally, and I do mean *TOTALLY*, nuts. I’ll let you watch the clip so you can see for yourself how much balls this Chinese farmer really has.
It’s kind of hard to tell what’s truly going on because the only view we get is from a camera located on the front of the aircraft flying lawnmower, pointing rearwards. The only things we can observe are that the plane looks like something made out of stuff picked from a landfill and that it could be falling apart at any moment.
Would you be willing to take a ride on this thing? :)
[Via Gizmodo]
By JR Raphael
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
The road trip is about to be revolutionized. Chrysler has just introduced an in-car WiFi system that’ll let you surf the net while on the go.
Uconnect Web — unveiled at a company event in Detroit today — will be available for all Chrysler, Jeep, and Dodge models by September. You’ll have to get a $449 router installed by the dealer, then you can pay $29 a month for unlimited wireless service right in your own vehicle.
The access comes from a 3G network and is said to be as fast and reliable as any non-moving WiFi setup. The router also features a 100-foot range, so you can extend your connection to an entire parking lot or even a nearby motel room.
The technology was created by a three-year-old company called AutoNet Mobile. The same engineers developed a similar system that’s been featured in Avis rental cars since last year.
Chrysler’s Uconnect will offer a handful of other high-tech travel options, including Uconnect Phone, a system that will let you use a Bluetooth device to communicate with the car. You’ll be able to change the radio station and even record voice memos into a microphone built into the rearview mirror. Another noteworthy addition is Uconnect Tunes, which puts a 30GB hard drive into your dashboard so you can rip and save songs from CDs directly to the car. You’ll also be able to load photos, videos, and other multimedia content to be shown on a display.
And you thought drivers on cell phones were annoying.
Since a lot of you guys are IT professionals, I thought I would point you to an interesting whitepaper we have on our free magazine portal. Here’s a short summary.
Most IT professionals know or suspect that virtualization of computer systems may have an important role in their organization’s evolving infrastructure – though where and how are likely under investigation. Some organizations will decide that virtualization isn’t necessary. Others will find that they want to implement it in places, but not across the board. Still others will move to implement it on a large scale. For those who decide to implement virtualization, the question is how to do it. Many people are not aware that a number of conversion tools and techniques are available now in the Microsoft Windows environment.
The paper pushes Symantec’s solution to help yourself migrate from your current environment to a virtual one, but it is an interesting read nonetheless since it covers a lot of concepts and scenarios related to the procedure. If virtualization interests you, I hightly recommend that you check it out.
Coming in R2-D2 and Darth Vader flavor, these official Star Wars USB hubs will be the perfect companions for Star Wars fans looking for extra USB connectivity for their PC. Both models emit genuine Star Wars sound effects, are animated, and feature 4 USB 2.0 ports. Expect them on the streets of Tokyo somewhere in July.
[Via technabob]
Priced at $98,000, the Magni Gyro M-22 Voyager may look like a standard helicopter, but it’s not. The M-22 is actually a gyroplane, and unlike a helicopter, it is pushed forward by a single rotor located behind the pilot. As the gyroplane takes off, the top rotor starts spinning by itself, acting like a wing, which gives stability to the aircraft. The M-22 can go as high as 13,000 feet and has a top speed of 115 mph.
[Via DVice]
Frequent flyers, prepare to be dazzled: This week, the world’s first power-assisted luggage is rolling into our lives.
A company called Live Luggage will unveil its motorized bags tomorrow. The bags have a handle-based sensor that powers up when you tilt the handle, then gives you an added push when you need it. The system uses a rechargeable 12 volt battery and even has an auto-shutoff feature so it won’t run away from you if you accidentally let go (which, I say, is a damned shame — that would have provided ample airport amusement for the rest of us).
The luggage weighs about 23 pounds — about six and a half pounds more than a standard suitcase, according to its manufacturer. The case itself is made of a material Live Luggage compares to that of car bumpers, which may or may not be a good thing.
Power aside, the design has some other interesting considerations, such as an “anti-gravity” handle that supposedly shifts the majority of the bag’s weight onto the powered wheels. The luggage also has a unique serial number etched into it with a laser so you can quickly identify your bag if it’s lost.
Price, however, is not quite as impressive: This fast-moving bag will cost you about $1,365. Good luck affording the plane ticket after that.
(Via Gizmag)
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
First Google announces that they are consigning their Browser Sync project to the grave and the fans that liked GBS started wailing and gnashing their teeth in despair. This was good news to Mozilla who are currently developing their own browser sync project called Weave.
But now Firefox Facts is reporting that Google will release the Browser Sync source code under the BSD license and put it on the Google Code website.
So it looks like it could be making a sort of unofficial low profile comeback (a bit like David Hasselhoff in Baywatch Nights). Unfortunately, I don’t think it will officially be supported by Google. It will probably just sit there on the code page, the unwanted and unloved Google app, for anyone that wants to play around with it and put it back on their Firefox browser.
Here’s the Browser Sync page on Google Code if anyone wants to watch it and see what gets posted. The actual Browser Sync is not there at the moment as far as I can see.